Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-04-16
IN THE OZARK REGION.
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Where Deer. Bear. Panther, "h1 Turkeys. Quail and Rabbits Thrive.

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 Turkev.. OuaiI and Rabbits Thrive.
 ''I wish that some of you fellows who hke totalk about the sport you have hunting here in the cold east could just pack up your traps about now and go back with me to country that a chap can live in with pleas m, and comfort while the gales and snow and frust of this Atlantic climate are getting their work in to the best kind of advan- tace." said s'Chip'' Macguire of Sprlns- field. Mo. the other night. "Game IS al yvays pleutv in southern Missouri, said he, ssLut this year it seems to have Outdone ll- self in abundance I came over the old Kansas City. Fort Scott and Gull rallroad, and although that was early in the season for the birds to be making themselves con spiclous. I'll bet that l cOunted a hundred hocks of wild turkeys, and there wash ' s flock out of which l couldn't have shot one or more of the splendid birds from my wih- dow in the car. The railroad m one place runs on trestles over swamp Tor seNeI'- miles. and in the extensive ponds and hayOua of that wild stretch of country thousands mon thousands of wild ducks and geese CT all varieties were feeling, some ot the water being covered for acres with the Fowl, unt-I their proups looked like islands in the lakes. Thesc fowl seemed to be 50 used 10 the hots. of the trains that l Gid not see ono move It. r,si,ion through being startled by the cars in al that distance.
 ..Tbe day before left Springfield saw a bushvhackcr come into town with a mule te,m load of deer carcasses of the finest kind bourbt one simply to obtain the maSnih- cent head and antlers and all paid for th' whole business was g. 2j. There were a1 least 900 rounds of the best venisOn included in the purchase. You could not get that hand and these horns here for less than Sl0. Among the other large game reported plenty and waiting for the hunter Is bear. lhl' -entle creature more particularly aifcct3 Ina iunrles and swamps of northern ArEan .as and if an unsuspecting sportsman @ .-oinc- into these parts he will have to keep Lis eyes skinned to find tLorouShiares un- ob..fTucted by bruin. The lynx, and now s,i then that relic of the days when the c,unt~v belonged to twO-!esgcd as well as t5rr-fO0ted savaSes. the Amercian panther, still hold a land tenure in that garden sr,- of tbe southwest. and am told, greet visitors after the manner of their kind. rsvsr daily with game of this kind, but know men who do, and what they say may be depended on.
 1T went out for a rabbit hunt a few days before I left home, and I got tired of trip ming over them. That is no exaggeration, for I give you my word that they jumped out from every bunch of brush and leaves that law in your path. After bagging al l could carry l went to shooting quail Tor friend. who was with me to bring back home. These birds actually paid no attention to the gun at all, but the fOcks I shot into kept right on feeding as fl nothing had hap pened. and rather objected to my picking up tho ones | had shot. We speak of gray and black squirrels out there as you might refer to snarrows here, for they take possession of towns and villages fin about the same way. The beauty of it all is that the later the season grows the better the weather gets, and any of you fellows can come out there New Years and strike it right, and spend the remainder of the winter in clover. You won't be apt to sec much snow. The Ozark region is the greatest country I know of, and the water out there is immense. lf you want to have a good hunt come out and see me. and leave all your medicine st home. New York Sun.